Curriculum Vitae. Warren Thomas McKinney

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1 Curriculum Vitae Name: Address: Warren Thomas McKinney Columbia University Department of Sociology 501 Knox Hall MC West 122 nd Street New York City, New York Telephone: Education: 2016 Ph.D Sociology, Columbia University (expected May 2016) Incorporating Diaspora: Blurring Distinctions of Race and Nationality Through Heritage Tourism in Ghana. Committee Members: Alondra Nelson (chair), Peter Bearman, Debra Minkoff 2012 M.Phil. Sociology, Columbia University 2009 M.A. Sociology and African American Studies, Yale University 2006 B.A. Sociology and Africana Studies, Vassar College Areas of Research and Teaching Interest Race & Ethnicity, Nationalism and Transnationalism, Political Sociology, Cultural Sociology, Historical Comparative Sociology, Collective Memory, Rural Sociology United States/Africa Grants, Fellowships and Awards Center For the Study of Race and Ethnicity (CSER) Teaching Fellow, Stanley Spivack Memorial Travel Fund Award, 2014 Paul F. Lazarfeld Fellow, Columbia University, Research Fellow, Yale Center for Comparative Research, Graduate Fellowship, Yale University, Conference and Invited Presentations The Legendary Topography of Race: Slave Route Tours and the Racialization of Space in Ghana, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Roundtable on Tourism, February 26, 2015

2 Roots Tourism: Civic Pilgrimage and the Mobilization of African-American Racial Heritage in Ghana, Annual Meeting of the Social Science Historical Association, Session on Race and Ethnicity, November 6, 2014 Unifying Diaspora: Festival Life in Ghana and the Flattening of the Ethno-National Difference of the Community of African Descent, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Session on Race & Ethnicity: Categories & Identities, February 20, 2014 PANAFEST: Diversity and the African Family, Columbia University Comparative Sociology (XS) Workshop, December 3, 2013 Doors of Return: Racial Identity and Tourism Markets in Ghana, 108 th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, Section on Racial and Ethnic Minorities, August, 13, 2013 Doors of Return: Racial Identity, Collective Memory & Tourism Markets in Ghana, 17 th Annual Irmgard-Conix Stiftung Berlin Roundtables, Workshop on Tourism, June, 27, 2013 Doors of Return: Racial Identity and Tourism Markets in Ghana, 17 th Annual Aage Sørensen Memorial Conference, April 13, 2013 Touring Slavery: Remapping Blackness Through Stories of Race, Duke University Triangle Race Conference, Section on Race and Identity, March 31, 2012 Doors of Return: Racial Identity & Tourism Markets in Ghana, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Session on the Racialization of Ethnicity: Institutional Processes and Ideologies, March 23, 2013 Touring Slavery: Remapping Blackness Through Stories of Race, Annual Meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Session on Remembering Race, Constructing Blackness, February 26, 2012 Feeling Race: Identification, Social Ties, and Affect in Black Political Mobilization, University of Chicago Minority Graduate Student Association 18 th Annual Conference, May 20, 2011 Panelist, On to the Next One: Education and Activism after Vassar, Vassar College, April 16, 2011 Development Diasporas: Transnationalism in West African Growth, Polytechnic University Kwame Nkrumah International Conference, August 19, 2010

3 Becker s Tricks of the Trade, Yale University Urban Ethnography Workshop, March 1, 2010 (with Patricia Maloney) Commentator for Peter Stamatov, Comparative Research Workshop, Yale University Center for Comparative Research, October 27, 2009 Neoliberal Development and the Case of the Ghanaian Cocoa Industry, Yale University Center for Comparative Research, April 27, 2009 Discussant, Neo-Imperialism in Post-Independence Africa: Definitions, Case Studies and Human Impacts. Yale University Council on African Studies, March 27-29, 2009 Commentator for Abebe Zegeye, Comparative Research Workshop, Yale University Center for Comparative Research, September 22, Alternative Incarceration: Poughkeepsie Community Transition Center, New York State Probation Officers Annual Meeting, August, Teaching and Research Experience Teaching Assistant, Social Theory (Teresa Sharpe), Department of Sociology, Columbia University, Fall 2014 Organizer, Department of Sociology Pro-Seminar, Columbia University, 2012 Teaching Assistant, Global Urbanism (Saskia Sassen), Department of Sociology, Columbia University, Fall 2013 Teaching Assistant, The Social World (Gil Eyal), Department of Sociology, Columbia University, Spring 2012 Teaching Assistant, Race and Place in Urban America (Carla Shedd), Department of Sociology, Columbia University, Fall 2011 Teaching Assistant, The Social World (Shamus Khan), Department of Sociology, Columbia University, Spring 2011 Research Assistant for Saskia Sassen, Department of Sociology, Columbia University Fall 2010 Teaching Assistant, Freedom and Identity in Black Cultures, (Elizabeth Alexander), Department of African-American Studies, Yale University, Spring 2009

4 Research Assistant for Eileen Leonard, Department of Sociology, Vassar College, Fall Spring 2005 Professional Service Editor for African Identities, Editor for Maroon: The Yale Journal of African American Studies, Professional Memberships American Sociological Association Eastern Sociological Society Social Science Historical Association Southern Sociological Society Field Work Experience Ghana Summer 2011, Summer 2012: I conducted field observations of tourist groups participating in organized tours of slave castles, museums, and national monuments dedicated to the Atlantic slave trade. These observations contribute my analysis the role of the state in shifting collective memory and social boundaries. New York City Fall 2011: I completed field observations of an open-air market located in Harlem as part of an investigation into the marketing of ethnic-goods and authenticity. While on-site I focused on the ways vendors demonstrate the authenticity and African origins of their products to tourists visiting the site to increase sales. Technical Profile Statistics: Languages: R, SPSS, SAS Asante Twi (Good proficiency) Akuapem Twi (Fair proficiency) Swahili (Fair proficiency)

5 References Peter Bearman Jonathan R. Cole Professor of Social Sciences, 606 West 122 nd Street, 710B Knox Hall, New York City, NY 10027, Debra Minkoff Professor of Sociology, 3009 Broadway, 332D Milbank, New York City, NY 10027, Alondra Nelson (Dissertation Advisor) Professor of Sociology, 606 West 122 nd Street, 607 Knox Hall, New York City, NY 10027, Van Tran Assistant Professor of Sociology, 606 West 122nd Street, Knox Hall, New York City, NY 10027,